About
Enabling Serverless and cloud native technologies, while keeping them secure and maintaining the highest standards. I am a customer-oriented, result-driven security professional, with a goal of removing customer obstacles to allow innovation. I strongly believe the key to security excellence is proper education and I have been passionately committed to sharing, teaching and lecturing in the field of information security for over a decade.
Shoot me an email at: hello@appsec.it
Current Roles
Sr. Director, Head of Cloud-Native Research
2020 - Present
Contrast SecurityContrast Security recently acquired CloudEssence, a cloud-native security technology company, and established a Cloud Native Innovation Center in Israel and Italy, where I am heading the security research team.
Adjunct Professor
2019 - Present
Quinnipiac UniversityTeaching application security courses as part of Quinnipiac University's Masters program in Cybersecurity.
Project Leader
2012 - Present
OWASP FoundationLeading multiple open-source project for the application security community. Including: Serverless Top 10 and DVSA
Education
Bachelor of Science, Software Engineering
2007 - 2011
Shenkar College of Engineering, Design and Art, IsraelCommunity / Vulenteering
Notable Roles
Co-Founder & CTO
2020
CloudEssenceFounding CloudEssence, a Cloud-Native security testing solution. CloudEssence was acquired by Contrast Security in December 2020.
Director of Security Research
2018 - 2020
Protego LabsHead of Security Research at Protego Labs, the market leader in Serverless protection. Protego Labs was acquired by CheckPoint in December 2019.
Director, Application Security
2013 - 2017
AppSec Labs
Other Past Experience
2004 - 2018
- Cyber Security Advisor, FBK - Fondazione Bruno Kessler
- Security Researcher, Synack Red Team
- Sr. Information Security Analyst, Amdocs
- DLP Security Researcher, CheckPoint
- Intelligence Analyst, RSA Security
- Security Team, IAI - Israel Aerospace Industries
- Platoon Sergeant (NATO OR-6), IDF - Israel Defence Forces
Talks
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